askspeaks.com Republicans want desperately to privatize Social Security so that their Wall Street/banker friends can have your safety-net money for their financial schemes, all the while wanting to sink more and more taxpayer money into the already massive military spending. Republicans also appear to be attempting to demonize the term "entitlements" so that we equate Social Security, along with "welfare" as "Liberal" entitlement programs to be viewed as the internal "danger" facing the American way of life.